US Patent Issued to Kyocera Document Solutions on May 12 for "System and methods for optimizing document storage cost" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,898, issued on May 12, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"System and methods for optimizing document storage cost" was invented by Selim Zaman (San Mateo, Calif.) and Chikara Yuki (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document management method for optimizing storage costs of new importing documents and existing documents are disclosed. The method categorizes the uploaded documents and the existing documents based on metadata and attributes embedded therein and saves the uploaded documents and the existing documents in a cold storage or a hot storage based on their usage or access metrics...